Councillor wants live broadcast of meetings
Members of the public anywhere will be able to watch and listen to meetings of Sligo County Council, if a member of the council has his way. Sinn Fein Councillor Chris MacManus will propose at next Monday’s meeting that proposals for live web casting, or other live broadcasting means, be…
Doherty ‘deeply concerned’ over border issue
A Donegal Sinn Fein TD says it’s ‘deeply concerning’ to hear that the Revenue Commissioners have not sought Special Designated Status for Northern Ireland. Deputy Pearse Doherty was speaking after a meeting of the Joint Oirechtas Committee on Finance which heard contributions from the Revenue Commissioners. In answer to questions…
Sinn Fein moves legislation to regulate vulture funds
Sinn Fein has moved legislation to regulate vulture funds. The billl was moved by the party’s finance spokesperson Donegal TD Pearse Doherty in the Dail yesterday. It will regulate vulture funds for the first time and the party hopes it will get support in light of the number of distressed…
Sligo/Leitrim TD tells Dail of constituent’s horror in mother and baby home
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says we must create a new society in which horrors such as what happened in the mother and baby homes can never happen again. During an emotional Dail debate on the mother and baby homes scandal yesterday, Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny told of the experience of…
Tony Blair leads tributes to the late Martin McGuinness
Tributes are being paid this morning to Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, who has died at the age of 66. He had been unwell for several months and passed away in Derry overnight. Mr McGuinness stepped down as Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister in January. The former member of the IRA…
MEP calls on all parties to outline policies on United Ireland
A North West/Midlands MEP is calling on all parties across the Island of Ireland to set out their policies on a United Ireland. Sinn Fein’s Matt Carthy says the impact of Brexit is making a referendum on a United Ireland a much more real prospect. He’s welcomed Micheál Martin’s promise…
Leitrim Councillor is shocked at amount of drugs cultivated and taken in county
A Leitrim Councillor says he’s shocked at the level of drugs being cultivated and taken in the county. Sinn Fein Councillor Padraig Fallon was responding to confirmation by a Garda Superintendent at a recent Joint Policing Committee meeting that most of the people recently involved in cultivating or selling illegal…